What to Eat, a shake-to-decide dinner picker, is on the App Store
What to Eat: Shake & Decide is on the App Store, free, for iPhone.
It exists to end the "I don't know, what do you want?" conversation. Shake the phone and it picks dinner. Tap Nope and that dish is gone for the rest of the day, so nothing comes round twice. Tap Cook it and you are done.
What it does
Two modes. Cook at Home suggests something to make and opens the recipe. Eat Out suggests a cuisine and hands you to Maps to find it nearby.
Real food, not a word wheel. 396 dishes across 25 cuisines, 353 of them with an ingredients list and a method, each tagged by effort, rough cost and which meal it suits.
Filters that actually filter. 168 vegetarian dishes, 57 vegan, 201 gluten free. Cap the effort, cap the budget, and permanently skip cuisines you do not like.
No veto loops. Every rejection narrows the field rather than reshuffling it, and one tap starts the day over if you run the list out.
Your own list. Add your go-to dinners and favourite local places, then shake through just those.
Offline by default. The dishes, recipes and filters all ship inside the app. No account, no sign in, and shaking never touches the network.
Plan my week (coming in 1.1)
Shaking solves tonight. Version 1.1, in review now, solves the week. Tap Plan my week and it asks seven questions, one per screen: how many dinners, who is eating, where you shop (Woolworths, Coles, ALDI, or any mix), your weekly budget, any diet, how much cooking you feel like, and anything to avoid or that you love.
About a minute later you get a week of dinners, each with an original recipe scaled to your table, and a shopping list split per store and grouped by aisle in walking order: mince, dairy and pantry at ALDI, fresh herbs and the Thai sauces at Woolies, with rough AUD shelf prices, a subtotal per store and an honest total against your budget. If you asked for leftovers it doubles one night and tells you which evening eats it. Items tick off as you shop and the list shares as plain text.
The plan is written by Claude, Anthropic's model, through a small server that never sees anything but your answers. The first plan is free; after that it is part of Plus. Prices are estimates, not live specials, and the app says so.
What it costs
Free. What to Eat Plus is an optional subscription at US$1.99 a month or US$9.99 a year, and lifts the limit on your own list, unlocks full history, adds the budget, effort and cuisine filters, and makes a fresh weekly plan whenever you want one.
Get it on the App Store.